The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) has been effective for more than four years now, but it is still making new impacts to the corporate tax environment. One provision that businesses must navigate and implement — for now, at least — is the capitalization and amortization of…
This year’s changes to the federal child tax credit (CTC) are significant and a seeming advantage for parents, but upon a closer look, they may not be a benefit for all taxpayers. Historically, qualified taxpayers received their child tax credit when they filed their income taxes. But beginning July 15,…
By: Jackie Emert, CPA, MST, and Melissa Ballantine Partnership tax basis and a taxpayer’s ability to use passed-through deductions has always been a hot issue for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). However, enforcement has been difficult, due to the multiple basis methods that are reported on partners’ Schedule K-1s. That…
If a company has sales tax nexus in a state, they are required to collect sales or use tax on sales to customers in that state. Before the internet and over a half century ago, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states could not impose the obligation to collect and…